Is every day like this?
Some days, we're busy.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
[contemplating whether to allow a patient to operated on] I guarantee if we perform this operation, regardless of the outcome, we'll be sued, and they'll likely win, and millions.
And that's how we make our decisions? By how much it's gonna cost us?
All right, get off the high horse, Dr. Halstead.
How about we call the Ethics Committee?
Be faster to call a judge, but I'm not gonna burn a favor on this.
[observes Sarah Reese putting a central line into a dummy] I can't tell you how many times I missed before I finally got it.
I know how to do it. I just couldn't do it in there.
It takes practice, that's all.
I'm fine with him. I never miss.
Yeah, he's the ideal patient. You can't hurt him, and his life's not hanging in the balance.
If this rotation weren't a requirement, I wouldn't be here.
Where would you be?
I'm a lab person.
Pathology?
Maybe.
Every med student, once they start dealing with patients, thinks they'd do better in Pathology. I did.
So much easier to run a hospital without doctors.
CDr. Czerny
What's the difference between God and a doctor?
[Will shrugs]
CDr. Czerny
God knows he's not a doctor.
You were in the, uh, what, the navy, right?
Still am. Naval Reserves.
Doc I did my residency with was on away leave from the Navy. Tough as hell practicing psychiatry with you guys. Couldn't get anybody to open up.
Could be a sign of weakness.
Sometimes, when somebody that we love gets sick, very easy to lose sight of the person and see only the disease. Remembering that our loved one is still there? Not always easy.
SZDr. Sam Zanetti
Your father, is he as big a tube steak as he seems?
That he is.
SZDr. Sam Zanetti
You leave him out there, Rhodes. Don't bring him in here.
I don't believe this. I... I miss something with one patient, and it's too late to fix it, then I catch something like this early on, and I still can't fix it. Nat, the medicine is clear. The patient should not be making this decision. I should.
So you became a doctor to tell people what to do?
I became a doctor to save people's lives. It's all I've ever wanted to do. I don't have a fallback plan or some hidden passion. This is it for me. It's just... no one ever told me there'd be this much loss involved.
Look, I wish I had more to tell you. Russell's on his way to CAT scan right now, so we can figure out what's injured. We think that it has something to do with the subclavian artery.
CRClaire Rhodes
English?
The one that supplies blood to the arm. He's gonna need an operation. We have to remove the glass and...
CRClaire Rhodes
You haven't removed the glass?
It's actually keeping him from bleeding to death. We are trying to get good imaging so that when we operate, we're not going in blind.
CRClaire Rhodes
So get it.
Is this how it's gonna be?
CRClaire Rhodes
What did you expect?
I had to leave, okay? The way things were with dad, there was no...
CRClaire Rhodes
Right, you left him, Connor, but you left me, too. Just go take care of Russell.
That's your dad?
Yep.
Fathers like that keep me in business, baby.
CRCornelius Rhodes
I'm not sure you're aware, but Connor knows Russell Rollins, and it just didn't seem appropriate to me that my son be the one treating him.
Well, the degree of familiarity doesn't warrant taking Dr. Rhodes off the case, and Mr. Rollins, when he was lucid, did not request another physician.
CRCornelius Rhodes
Let me put it another way. I would like Russell to receive the very best medical care, and I do not think my son can provide that.
Your son is a first-rate surgeon. Otherwise, I would not have hired him.
CRCornelius Rhodes
I want him off the case.
It's not your decision to make, sir.
CRCornelius Rhodes
Excuse me, but I'm the one writing checks here.
And while we appreciate that, this is my shop, and I will not be pulling Dr. Rhodes from the case.
CRCornelius Rhodes
I want you to remember this conversation, because if anything happens to Russell, you will be repeating it in a courtroom.
Shooting in a movie theater. Mass casualties. About to get crazy. EMT four minutes out.
[ambulances roll up] Check that, they're here.
Is it true? Lucy Simms' liver is on its way back to the hospital?
The intended recipient died in pre-op.
Peter is an HLA match. It can go to him.
Yeah, there are names ahead of him on the list.
None of them are in this hospital. It has already been three hours; livers are viable for less than twelve. By the time the list gets sorted out, the... the patient prepped, organ shipped, it may be too late. Lucy's husband can direct donate to whomever he chooses. Ask him to give it to Peter.
You're talking about the man responsible for his wife's death.
And he has done a horribly stupid thing, I know, but he's a kid. Peter deserves a chance to turn his life around.
Something doesn't make sense.
What's that?
Shooting in a movie theater, and we've only had one GSW, and that was the shooter. Where are the rest of the gunshot victims?
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